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POV-Ray

The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects.

Simply put, with this progam, you can write a picture. Perhabs the proverb writer had this in mind when he wrote that a picture is worth a thousand words. I have created a picture of my speaker with this progam. The picture and its codes are available here.

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Get the Code. To download it, right click the link and click 'Save Target As'.